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| Adjust the focus |
All of these people that I've met work very hard in the process. But for the multitudes of us who have not stumbled upon the luck & opportunity to devote that kind of time to our passion, it can be easy to get discouraged.
Don't be. The trees are merely blocking your overlook of the forest.
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| Still amazing with a gorgeous partner! |
I am going to cheat & share the message I sent to Susan Mcsherry-Jones (no relation, LOL), an old friend & the subject of this gorgeous article (my fingers are tired...). When I met her, she worked full time at a marketing firm & needed a hand keeping up with her small personal barn. Not long after, she decided to start her own company & it appears to have blossomed! I am thrilled that we have been able to reconnect (I guess Facebook isn't ALL ridiculous).
But Susan is a full-time business owner, full-time mom (omg, I can't believe the baby I looked after is 17!!), & a self-made woman who has faced & overcome the challenges we are all familiar with...and continues to every day. Even more, she is hope for each of us who might feel that even our modest goals are too much to expect. Never forget that your journey is YOURS; the course may be unpredictable, but no less valid than any other just because it doesn't involve gold medals.
I Command Thee To Watch And...Just...Wow
Maybe I'm biased, but this is possibly the most beautifully shot & edited interview I've ever seen & now I am in tears. I am SO proud of Susan, who hired me to help her with her farm when I was in high school & home from college, almost 20 yrs ago.
I remember when that indoor was just a fantasy, when one day it became flags in the grass & the first time she had furniture in that little (but always gorgeous) office, as she showed me the layout that would allow her to watch her daughter, my then-babysitting charge, Jacquelyn, while she schooled her dressage horses.
Thank You
Susan, you look amazing & even though I remember your stress then, I always admired you & I knew you would be wildly successful. Thank you for being one of the strong women who were role models in my life, & for all that you so generously shared with me, that scruffy, horseless girl desperate to be near hooves any way she could.
Even dragging a sled full of manure uphill over ice out the back of the barn was well worth the rich return you gave, whose names were Nick, Flame, Weanie, & Finaud. You made your farm feel a little like my home, too; I guess that's why those familiar fields put a lump in my throat. It really doesn't seem all that long ago when I rushed to the best part of my day, my time with your beautiful boys.
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| This is the view I remember... |
*sorry I couldn't think of a genius title, so I just used the same word 27 times, go with it...
